Perched halfway up a wooded mountainside in Warwick, NY, on a building site characterized by its sweeping valley views and anchored on its northwest corner by a scree of rock in a hollow at the base of a crumbling shale cliff, the project’s main physical challenge was to sensitively integrate a three-bedroom dwelling into this complex terrain. As Project Manager and Designer, I responded to this design problem by developing the Rock Slide House’s parti as a series of volumes stepping down along the slope to create a multi-leveled interior landscape reflecting the dynamic exterior setting and to define a carefully terraced massing that conformed to the strict building height requirements of Warwick’s “Ridgeline Overlay District” zoning.